Take a closer look at a historic windmill in Texas. The Victoria “Dutch” windmill is an example of how Texans adapted Old World technologies to a new landscape in their efforts to farm their land. John Lienhard of Radio Station KUHF told the story of the Victoria “Dutch” Windmill on his National Public Radio Show “The Engines of Our Ingenuity.” This site provides a transcript of the story and pictures of the windmill.

http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/epi537.htm

Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Citizenship” feature for this unit: Should You Stand Firm?

Part of the “Valley of the Shadow” Civil War project, this wonderful site provides a wealth of information about the push of Southern states towards secession, and the attempts of Northern and border states to preserve the Union. The site also offers selections of newspaper articles from the period that register local responses to impending conflict.

Part of the popular website, Lone Star Junction, this section presents the complete text of the Texas Ordinance of Secession, the document that officially disjoined Texas from the Union in 1861 and led to the its entry into the Confederacy and the Civil War. The site also contains a link to information about the Secession Convention of 1861.